Hunter vs Shooter - What's the difference?
hunter | shooter |
One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.
A dog used in hunting.
A horse used in hunting, especially a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
* 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 480:
One who hunts or seeks after anything.
* Tennyson
A kind of spider, the huntsman or hunting spider.
A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover.
Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer etc.
(slang) A firearm.
A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective.
A professional wrestler who uses actual fighting moves as part of his style, or who speaks his mind during a live or televised event (instead of speaking from a script).
A large marble used for knocking smaller marbles out of a chalk circle.
* 2011 , Jamie MacLennan, ZhaoHui Tang, Bogdan Crivat, Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008
An alcoholic beverage typically served in a shot glass.
A shooting star.
As a proper noun hunter
is for a hunter.As a noun shooter is
someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer etc.hunter
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- Henry, laughing, spurs away his hunter under the dripping trees.
- The hunter becomes the hunted.
- a fortune hunter
- No keener hunter after glory breathes.
Derived terms
* fortune hunter * white hunterSee also
* ("hunter" on Wikipedia) ----shooter
English
Noun
(en noun)- You separate the marbles by color until you have four groups, but then you notice that some of the marbles are regulars, some are shooters , and some are peewees.